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PARIS — In the past few months, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced the first French military base in the Middle East, christened his country’s costliest nuclear submarine and advocated returning troops to NATO command. Read more
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CHENGDU, China, May 25 — The strongest aftershock since a May 12 earthquake devastated southwest Sichuan province shook the area Sunday afternoon, killing one person, injuring more than 200 and spreading panic through a region just beginning to move from rescue operations to rebuilding. Read more
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 24 — Sen. Barack Obama swept across this island commonwealth Saturday, a visit that had the markings of a coda to a grueling primary campaign. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia, May 24 — Manuel Marulanda, the leader of a guerrilla army that has bedeviled this country for more than four decades, has died of a heart attack, the Colombian government said Saturday. Read more
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MONTEBELLO, Canada, Aug. 20 — President Bush met Monday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, starting a two-day summit aimed at solidifying security and economic ties among the North American allies. Read more
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QUINHAMEL, Guinea-Bissau — Filipe Dju sat grim-faced on the tangled roots of a mangrove tree, a padlocked chain around his ankle tethering him to four other recovering cocaine addicts. Read more
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NAJAF, Iraq, May 24 — U.S. officials on Saturday launched local reconstruction teams at two sites in the southern provinces of Karbala and Najaf, saying they intend to take advantage of security gains by repairing the region’s ailing infrastructure and boosting economic development. Read more
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KABUL, May 20 — By 7 a.m., the bakers of Sang Tarashi Street have been hard at work for hours, shaping globs of dough, slapping them into a hot clay oven and flipping them out at just the right second. A stack of fresh flat bread called naan sits invitingly by the window, and the [...]
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament gathered on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state, reviving paralyzed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed cabinet and the Hezbollah-led opposition. Read more
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BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) – A strong aftershock jolted southwest China on Sunday killing at least one person and injuring 400 others, state media said, nearly a fortnight after a big earthquake killed tens of thousands in the same area. Read more
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China’s earthquake zone has been warned to prepare for heavy rains which could hamper further relief efforts. Read more
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North of the epicenter, 1,600 soldiers and police were hiking to a blocked river outside Beichuan, each carrying 22 pounds to blast through the debris to prevent floods, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Read more
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LAST weekend, I heard the radio headlines that Ted Kennedy had been rushed to hospital. I had just finished reading a letter from Ted’s niece, Caroline Kennedy. Caroline had written to thank me for my work for peace and for the support of the Irish Government for the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, [...]
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NOW the British government has been abandoned by its core supporters, all sides of the Labour Party have lost faith in their leader. Read more
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BERLIN (May 24) – Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57. Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in [...]
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Thirty British pleasure yachts are trapped in an illegal blockade by French protesters who have attacked some boats with flares and missiles for trying to escape. The boats have been imprisoned in Cherbourg marina for the past week. Read more
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An 18-year-old actor in the forthcoming Harry Potter film has been stabbed to death during a fight outside a London bar. Read more
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A. It’s definitely a possibility. In the wake of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lead a lifting of the ban on headscarves in universities — and a charge by his party, the AKP, to ban booze in restaurants — the 11-member Constitutional Court agreed at the end of March 2008 to hear the case charging [...]
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Immigrants in South Africa — many who have fled crises in countries such as Zimbabwe and Somalia — have become the brunt of anger over economic woes in mob violence that for the first time spread to Cape Town today. Thousands are fleeing back to their home countries, such as Malawi and Mozambique, leaving those [...]
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My golf guys and I have gone through fits of rule-related rigor over the years — cutting out mulligans (free re-dos off the tee), gimmes (short putts that the player is allowed to pick up and consider good) and generous relief (dropping a new ball in a very advantageous spot after having hit the previous [...]